CRASH

 

Born in 1972 Szőny, Hungary, lives and works in Berlin.

Studies

Institute of Photography no. 320, Székesfehérvár, 1991–1993
Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Intermedia Department, Budapest, 1995–2000

Scholarships and Awards

Duende Studiohouse, Rotterdam, 2001
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, International Studio Program, Berlin, 2002
Künstlerhaus Worpswede, International Studio Program, Worpswede, 2007
Derkovits Gyula Fine art Scholarship, Budapest, 2006–2008
Munkácsy Award, Hungary, 2011

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2010

CRASH – Passive Interview, Museum Kiscell – Municipal Picture Gallery, Budapest
Crystal Clear Propaganda – The Transparent Method, Dortmunder Kunstverein e.V., Dortmund
2 Songs 1 End, MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen
Joe Contra Joe, VideoSpace Gallery, Budapest

2009

Crystal Clear Propaganda – The Transparent Method, Studio Gallery, Budapest
Crystal Clear Propaganda – The Transparent Method, SecondHome Projects, Berlin

2008

Air Out, Photo Edition Berlin

2007

Guitarsolo, CHB – Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin
Truck facing Eastwards, KUNSTrePUBLIK – Skulpturenpark, Berlin
I’m absolutely none, IMPEX, Budapest

2006

Guitarsolo, Vintage Gallery, Budapest

2005

Portrait with a microphone, Approach Art Association, Pécs

2004

Tradition und neue Chance, presentation, IFA-Galerie, Berlin

2003

Thursday Forever – MC Monument, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
StereoHeart, ACB Gallery, Budapest
Bar 24, Galeria Balen, Slavonski Brod

2002

Move the Spirit from A to Z, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Move the Spirit from A to Z, Trafó Gallery, Budapest

2001

Sunday to Monday, CO10 Galerie – Ulrike Behrends, Düsseldorf
Bye Bye Happiness, Hello Loneliness, Vintage Gallery, Budapest
Bye Bye Innocence, MEO – Institution of Contemporary Arts, Budapest

2000

Inplanted Reality, Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Hamburg

1999

Video show, Salon3, London
Video show, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
EY EY, U.F.F. Gallery, Budapest

1998

Help Yourself, Annexed Gallery, London
LifeStyle-less, Knoll Gallery, Budapest

1997

Every night and every day is Sunday, Studio Gallery, Budapest

1996

Homemade Trance, Liget Gallery, Budapest

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2010

Nam June Paik Award 2010 – Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
Aviva Award Exhibition, Kunsthalle Budapest
Transitland, Studio Tommaseo, Istituto per la documentazione e diffusione delle arti, Trieste
Transitland, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS, Madrid
Infernoesque Provides: Luna / Proxy/ Fire/ Snow, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden
Infernoesque Provides: Luna / Proxy/ Fire/ Snow, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Berlin
Private Landscapes, Contemporary Photography from Hungary, Kunstverein Düsseldorf

2009

Gender Check – Rollenbilder in der Kunst Osteuropas, MUMOK, Vienna
Transmediale, Transitland Destination Berlin (TCP), Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin
Transitland, The Red House, Centre for Culture and Debate, Sofia
Another Time – Another Place, American University Museum at the Katzen, Washington
A Little Hungarian Pornography, MODEM, Debrecen

2008

Guess who is coming, RAM Art Foundation, Rotterdam
Micro-narratives: tentation des petites réalités, Musée d’Art moderne de Saint-Etienne
All that Cinema, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Kunst am Hamburger Bahnhof, Infernoesque Projektraum, Berlin
Endlosschleifen, Kunstverein Göttingen
My favorite pastime, WL project, presentation, Blue Lotus Gallery, Hong Kong
Art is a man’s name, videoscreening, Temporären Kunsthalle Berlin

2007

Concept: Photography – Dialogues and Attitudes, Selection from the DZ BANK Art Collection,
Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
ASIA – EUROPA mediation, European attitude, IF Museum Inner Spaces, Poznan
Central Europe Revisited I, Schloss Esterhazy, Eisenstadt
Close Encounters, Fine Arts Center Galleries University of Rhode Island, Kingston
48th October Salon, Temptation of small realities, micro communities, Belgrade

2006

1. Vienna Biennale, Vienna
New Video, New Europe, The Kitchen, New York
Artist Migration Berlin – Dellbrügge & De Moll, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg
Autopoesis, Slovenska Narodna Galeria, Bratislava

2005

Extended Views – screening program, Médiathèque José Cabanis, Toulouse
Urbane Realitaten: Focus Istanbul, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
New Feminism / New Europe, Cornerhause, Manchester
Boundary Zones – Plartforma, Klaipeda, Lithuania
Places of Transition – 7th International Triennial Ecology and Art, Maribor

2004

New Video – New Europe, Society Renaissance, Chicago
New Video – New Europe, Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis
New Video – New Europe, Tate Modern, London
Twilight Tomorrow, Art Museum Singapore, Singapore
BreakThrough, Grote Kerk Den Haag
Soap Opera, Műcsarnok – Kunsthalle, Budapest

2003

Soft manipulation, Atelierraum Martin Vesely, Vienna
Cruising Danubio, Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid
AURA, After the age of technical reproduction, C3 – Center for Culture & Communication, Budapest

2002

Unstable Narratives, hARTware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund
Owerwork, TENT, Rotterdam
Upside Down, Gallery Priestor for Contemporary Art, Bratislava
Aktuelle Positionen, Museum Sammlung Friedrichshof

2001

2.Berlin Biennale, Kunst-Werke, Berlin
Confidences – Parce que c’etait lui, parce que c’etait moi, Casino Luxembourg
Irokéz Collection, Mucsarnok – Kunsthalle, Budapest
Out of Time, Mucsarnok / Kunsthalle /, Budapest
Léger Différé, Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain, Séte
Hungarian digital art, Media Centre, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

2000

What If, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
UndabdiePost 2000, Postfuramt, Berlin
Crosstalk, Mucsarnok – Kunsthalle, Budapest
Up to You!, Galeria SKUC, Ljubljana
Media Model, Intermedia-C3, Mucsarnok – Kunsthalle, Budapest
Cross Female, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
In and Out, Galeria Kombetare e Arteve, Tirana

1999

The Stockholm Connection, ACC Galerie, Weimar
Young and Serious – Recycled Image, Ernst Museum, Budapest
MA fine art students, Gallery of the London Institution, London
The FKSE in Bucharest, Hungarian Institution, Bucharest
Footwear things, P60 Gallery – Artpool, Budapest

1998

Obserwatorium, Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw
Very Short Spaces of Time, Biennale de l’Image Paris, Cnp., Paris
Personal – Ritual – video programme, City Museum of Skopje

1997

Internet Galaxy, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

1996

Arithmetic 4., Uitz Hall, Dunaújváros

1995

Through the glass, Galeria SKUC, Ljubljana

Public collections

NBK – Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
FRAC – Basse-Normandie, Caen
Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Institute of Contemporary Art – Dunaújváros
MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen
City Gallery of Győr

Publications

2010

2 Songs 1 End, catalogue of the exhibition, MODEM Debrecen
CRASH – Passive Interview, catalogue of the exhibition, Museum Kiscell – Municipal Picture Gallery

2009

25 Jahre Dortmunder Kunstverein (Dortmunder Kunstverein)
Transitland. Video art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989–2009 (Ludwig Museum Budapest)
Contemporary Hungarian Photography (CHP Foundation Pécs)
A Little Hungarian Pornography, (MODEM Debrecen)
Synoptic – visionaudial art meeting (SosemArt Association Pécs)
Mozgó Világ 8. (From Berlin – Emese Kürti)
Új Művészet – Art Today 6. (My Voice – Anna Váraljai)
Balkon 7,8. (Yes, we can! – Franciska Zólyom)

2008

Irokéz Collection (Golyós Toll Kft.)
Balkon 2. (Parcella Projekt – Zsófia Frazon)

2007

Dialogues & Attitudes – Concept: Photography (DZ Bank)
Micro Narratives, 48th October Salon (Belgrade Cultural Centre)
Asia – Europe mediations (Stowarzyszenie Kontekst Sztuki Poznan)
Biennale Kvadrilaterale 2 – Culture Hero (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka)
Ninety-Nine Years, The Antal-Lusztig Collection in the MODEM (MODEM Debrecen)
AP/100 von hundert 7. (Ungarische Kunst und Berlin – Melanie Franke)
Art Magazin 3. (Skulpturen Park – János Fodor)
Balkon 5. (Concept: Photography – István Antal)
Balkon 6. (Duett – Mónika Perenyei)

2006

Art’Fab – L’Art La Femme L’Europe (Vilo Diffusion & Distribution Paris)
Places of Transition – Continental Breakfast (Umetnostna Galeria Maribor)

2005

János Sturcz: The Deconstruction of the Heroic Ego (Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts)
Hungary Today – ECB Annual Photography Award 2005 (European Central Bank)
Hungarian Contemporary Art (bumbum Art Consulting)
Art Magazin English edition (A pop-conscious analyst – Zsolt Petrányi)

2004

Twilight Tomorrow (Singapore Art Museum)
Breakthrough (Grote Kerk Den Haag FICVN)
Soap Opera (Kunsthalle Budapest)
Print Project Poster Wallpaper – Praesens Books 01 (Praesens Kulturális Bt.)
Új Művészet – Art Today 11. (Narcissus – Andrea Bordács)

2002

Új Művészet – Art Today 6. (Play it again „Szem” ! – Andrea Bordács)

2001

2. Berlin Biennale (Kunst Werke Berlin)
Confidences „Parce que c’était lui, parce que c’etait moi” (Casino Luxembourg)
Central – artLab: Neue Kunst aus Mitteleuropa (artLab Wien)
Németh Hajnal: Inplanted Realities (Trafó Budapest)
Irokéz Collection (Irokéz Collection)

2000

What If, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
UndabdiePost 2000, Postfuramt, Berlin
Crosstalk, Mucsarnok – Kunsthalle, Budapest
Up to You!, Galeria SKUC, Ljubljana
Media Model, Intermedia-C3, Mucsarnok – Kunsthalle, Budapest
Cross Female, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
In and Out, Galeria Kombetare e Arteve, Tirana

1999

Somewhere Else Weimar 1999 (Skuc Gallery Ljubljana)
Salz – Zeitschrift für Literatur – Unter die Haut 6. (Essay von Hildegard Fraueneder)
Erotics and Sexuality in Hungarian Art (League of Non-Profit Art Spaces Budapest)

1995

Annula Catalogue (Skuc Gallery Ljubljana)